People do understand that if Uber became a real cab company that treated drivers like employees a lot of people would get fired by Uber, right And I am 100% in favor of this happening but I'm not sure they are
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Uber took off like wildfire because "It's an app, not a job" and the "hiring process" is really barebones and automated and they can onboard as many people as they want without budgeting for payroll All of this is bad, but Silicon Valley liberals and libertarians think it's good
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Driving is really dangerous, the most high stakes physically dangerous thing most of us ever do, and the more hours you do it for per day the more dangerous it is Riding in a stranger's car is a position of great physical vulnerability
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Driving *should not be* the "random job anybody can get that you can always make money at if you're willing to grind long enough" that shitty libertarians point to as a substitute for UBI It's fucked up that Uber made it into one
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What I'm saying is maybe it's true and maybe it's isn't that the ableist Uber driver had his "life ruined" by being banned from the app But if Uber had its shit together, he'd likely never have been hired in the first place, and his life therefore also ruined
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Have you really thought this through I've thought of and witnessed plenty of situations where, just looking at the ability to do the job, someone should've been fired but whatever, it's cruel to fuck someone over like that *Driving can't be one of them*
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People are gonna yell at me for this but no, I don't think a driver who shows up drunk or who doesn't seem to notice red lights is all that different from someone who makes the judgment call to leave a disabled passenger on the curb Whether or not he knew it was illegal
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Difference of degree, not kind He couldn't take responsibility for the welfare of his passengers for whatever personal issue he had, he shouldn't be driving as a job
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